Chenopodiumglaucum is a variable species represented by various forms of little or no taxonomic significance. However, throughout its extremely wide range it is also differentiated into several morphologically intergrading but geographically defined subspecies or microspecies.

Chenopodiumamurense Ignatov (Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 91: 111. 1986) was described from the Amur River area of the Russian Far East. This little-known entity clearly belongs to the C. glaucum aggregate (as a species or subspecies), differing from C. glaucum s.str. by having 3-lobed leaves and distinctly spatulate perianth segments. Such plants probably also occur in NE China. It should be noted, however, that 3-lobed leaves are characteristic of the rare hybrid, C. ×schulzeanum Murr (C. glaucum × C. rubrum).